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Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery (Radio Collection) | 
 enlarge | Author: Francis Durbridge
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £17.99
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 18315
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 1846070341
EAN: 9780792754404
ASIN: 1846070341
Publication Date: October 2, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Factory Sealed. 4-Disc Set. Posted within 24 hours on any working day, from UK mainland.
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 Look out Steve! June 27, 2008
Big Jim (London, UK)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This ludicrous story involves a breathless trip to Egypt in a flying boat as the central theme, with Paul and Steve having taken on the task of returning a pair of glasses(!) to its supposed owner. Of course being the Temples nothing goes smoothly and within hours the death toll mounts as just about everyone the pair comes in contact with cops their lot in a variety of ways. As coincidence piles on coincidence, this pair must be the most dense private eyes in the business as they cause havoc wherever they go and get the solution more by luck than judgement (just as well as we were running out of characters to play with) Did this sort of thing really keep our parents and grandparents amused all those years ago?
Of course it did, and we enjoy it even now. Of course my score gave it away because for all the daft stuff that happens, this story kept the kids (and their mum) quiet and enthralled on a long motorway trip to Scotland, so for entertainment value you can't beat it! One complaint I have is that the discs could have been edited because the opening of each episode has a brief reprise of the cliffhanger ending of the previous one, which is necessary when it was on radio but gets a bit wearing on CD.
 Temple but not as we know it August 23, 2007
Mr. D. Swan
4 out of 10 found this review helpful
If you've never heard a Paul Temple before this you will probably find this quite satisfying, Unfortunately I have and this wasn't. Paul Temple was one of BBC's most successful series running from the late 40's to the 60's, the adventures of the debonair socialite captivated the Uk, and strangely Germany, In this re production of an old script were treated to a very different Paul Temple, no longer suave he's played as a rather abrupt snippy sarcastic Temple, and the iconic catch phrase of " By Timothy" seems to appear only once. Paul and his wife Steve seem to have no chemistry either, Temples sarcastic and sometime downright rude to her, thankfully she seems none too aware of Pauls character traits though.
The whole story seems to be absolutely jam packed with Un Temple like moments, there even a scene were Temple uses strong arm tactics to squeeze information out of a waiter, any Temple fans would know Temple is far too sophisticated to even consider such an act of barbarism against an unarmed man.
I'm not quite sure if this is a reproduction of a previous lost Radio play or a script that didn't make it to production, the later is more believable, believable for a reason too. The story is very unlike a Temple mystery, usually in a case Temple doggedly chases clues, rarely telling Steve the full story, In this mystery thing just seem to happen to Paul, buffeted by circumstance he seems to flounder from one location to the other with things and clue's just Happening. It's a pity, Maybe it's not a case of they don't make them like they used too, it's more like there incapable of making them like they used too.
 Who says they don't make them like they used to? August 21, 2007
John Leasure (Portsmouth, Ohio USA)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
A remarkable remake of a classic "lost " Paul Temple episode without modern influences produces as good a production as any of the others. Hopefully BBC Radio 4 and BBC 7 can fund more of these "lost" episodes.
Highly recommended!!! May 30, 2007
Ian (Sunnyside, New York United States)
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
Great job!!! Crawford Logan makes an excellent Paul Temple. He's a tad less genteel than the Peter Coke version,so it's a tad more believable when he slugs a guy. Gerda Stevenson is excellent as well, but for me, there's only ever going to be one Steve...Marjorie Westbury. Short of channeling the talents of Miss Westbury, this is an excellent production which I highly recommend. It really captures all the suspense of the original broadcasts. Acccording to the liner notes, there are eight more productions "lost to the archives". I can only hope the BBC produces these scripts as well.
Paul on the nile November 4, 2006
M. G. Hatfield (North Wales UK)
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
This Paul Temple story has Paul and steve travelling to Cario so Paul can do reaseach for his lastet story but as always he become involed in a mystery which even he can't unravel to start with even though this is not acted by Peter Cooke and his co stars it is an enjoyable Paul Temeple Mystery
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